Winner - October Sketch Challenge

 We would like to thank everyone who participated in the 

October sketch challenge.

You were very creative and you used a wide variety of styles to create your entries.
It made the choice hard, though for the Design team; it was fun seeing all the creativity.

We would like to congratulate:

#6 *Urška*

Urška for winning the sketch challenge, we would love to invite you to be a 

Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge.
To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

We would also like to give Honourable Mentions to the following
(in submission order):

#1 Valerie

#4 Colien

#LeAnne Pugliese

Congratulations to you all!

We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.

You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

You're kindly invited to our Colour Challenge which is open until Midnight (GMT) Friday October 16.

October Sketch Challenge

 Hello, Christmas lovers and cardmakers!

The season changed and we welcomed autumn. This means that we can now officialy begin
countdown to Christmas time if you haven't done it yet! :)

Valentina B here with you today.
I kindly invite you to join us in the October challenges at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

It's the first Saturday in the month and this means we start with Sketch Challenge.
I have the honour to prepare the challenges this month.
For my first week I create this sketch:

I hope you will find time, a lot of inspiration here and that you'll enjoy playing along with us.

You can stretch this or use different shapes as long as we can see the basic sketch on your card. 

We can't wait to see you interpret this sketch and
we're looking forward to all the beautiful cards you'll share with us! 

This week our wonderdul guest designer is:

Tadeja

Here are some inspiration from our wonderful Design Team:

Valentina B

AndrejaM

Fabiola

Majda

Gill

Branka

Deborah

Tracy

AndrejaL

 

ELFi

 

 

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

• This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
• Only new projects - no back-linking
• Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
• Please show the graphic on your challenge post
• You must link up by midnight Friday (7.00pm EDT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions
• And please turn off word verification to make commenting easier - thank you

The deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 9th October 2026 -
that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States. 

Have fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner - september sketch challenge

 We would like to thank everyone who participated in the 

september sketch challenge.

You used a wide variety of styles and themes to create your entries.
It made the choice hard, though; it was fun seeing all the creativity.

We would like to congratulate:

Whols Tracy

Tracy, for winning the sketch challenge, we would love to invite you to be a 

Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge.

To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

We would also like to give Honourable Mentions 

to Cindy Major.

Congratulations to both of you.

We hope you will enjoy displaying our winners' badge on your blog.

You may collect it from the Badges tab at the top of the page here.

September Sketch Challenge

 Hello everyone

and welcome to the first September challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!
  

It's Majda here with you today. 

This month I have the honour to moderate the challenges and as always we start with a sketch. 

I hope you have some time to play along ...

You can stretch this or use different shapes as long as we can see the basic sketch on your card. 

We can't wait to see you interpret this sketch 

and we're looking forward to all the beautiful cards you'll share with us! 

Our Guest Designer this week is: 

Urška

My creation:

For more inspiration, here are the creations of the design team: 

Fabiola

AndrejaM 

 

Gill

Branka

ELFi

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
- Only new projects - no back-linking
- Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
- Please show the graphic on your challenge post
- You must link up by Midnight Friday (GMT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions

- And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

- Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 11th September 2026

Have fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner - August Sketch Challenge

 Hello Everyone,

It is time for us to announce the winner of the August Sketch Challenge.

To remind everyone, this is the sketch that we used.

We were glad to see 7 entries. Of those entries, we have chosen

#7 Urska

As the winner of our sketch challenge, we would love to invite you to be a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge. To accept this invitation, please contact us HERE so we can send you the details.

We would also like to give Honourable mentions to the following entries.

#1 Leslie

#3 Natasha

We would like to thank everyone who created along with our August Sketch. We hope that you will consider creating along with the Colour Challenge, which is still happening until midnight GMT on Friday 14th August 2026 - that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States.

August Sketch Challenge

 Hello, everyone!

Welcome to the August Challenges!  I am Tracy.  I will be setting the challenges this month.
I hope you enjoy playing along with our challenges.
I hope you have time and are inspired to join us.

It's the first Saturday, which means it's time for a Sketch Challenge.

We can't wait to see how you interpret this sketch.  We're looking forward to all the 

beautiful cards you'll share with us! 

And this week our wonderful Guest designer is

Kath

Thank you so much for creating such a wonderful card from my sketch.

Now it's time for the design team and I to show our interpretation of the sketch

Tracy

Fabiola

Gill

AndrejaM

Branka

Deborah

Majda 

ELFi

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

• This is a CARD challenge - so no 3D projects, tags or ATCs
• Only new projects - no back-linking
• Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog
• Please show the graphic on your challenge post
• You must link up by midnight Friday (7.00pm EDT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions
• And please turn off word verification to make commenting easier - thank you

The deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 7th August 2026 -
that's 7.00pm EDT for those in the States. 

Have fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

July Sketch Challenge

Hello everyone

and welcome to the first July challenge at 

52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

  

I'm Deborah and I'm hosting our challenges this month.  

As always we start with a sketch and I hope you will come and play along with us.

 You can stretch this or use different shapes as long as we can see the basic sketch on your card. 

We can't wait to see you interpret this sketch and we're looking forward to all the beautiful cards you'll share with us! 

 Myself and the team are looking forward to seeing what you create and share with us.

Deborah

Gill

Fabiola

Branka

Tracy

Andreja L

Andreja M.

ELFi

Majda

Just a quick reminder of the rules:

- Only new projects - no back-linking

- Please link directly to your POST, not to the whole of your blog

- Please show the graphic on your challenge post

- You must link up by Midnight Friday (GMT) to be considered for Winner or Honourable Mentions

- A maximum of 10 challenges, please

- And please turn off word verification in order to make commenting easier - thank you

- Deadline for entry to this challenge is midnight GMT on Friday 10th July 2026

Have fun!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter